Global InformationColin Lingwood Mallows information
Colin Lingwood Mallows | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 September 1930 Great Sampford, Essex, England |
| Died | 4 November 2023 (aged 93) Flemington, New Jersey, USA[1] |
| Nationality | English American |
| Education | University College London |
| Known for | Mallows's Cp Fowlkes–Mallows index |
| Awards | R. A. Fisher Lectureship Deming Lectureship Wilks Memorial Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University College London Bell Labs AT&T Labs Avaya |
| Doctoral advisor | Florence Nightingale David Norman Lloyd Johnson |
Colin Lingwood Mallows (10 September 1930 – 4 November 2023) was an English statistician, who worked in the United States from 1960.[2] He was known for Mallows's Cp, a regression model diagnostic procedure, widely used in regression analysis and the Fowlkes–Mallows index, a popular clustering validation criterion.[3][4]
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- ^ Denby, Lorraine; Landwehr, Jim (2013). "A conversation with Colin L. Mallows" (PDF). International Statistical Review. 81 (3): 338–360. doi:10.1111/insr.12038. S2CID 119937742.
- ^ Dalal, Siddhartha; Landwehr, James (2024-04-12). "Colin Lingwood Mallows: a great ambidextrous statistician, 1930–2023". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 187 (2): 553–554. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnad141. ISSN 0964-1998.